Mitosis yields what?

• A. Two identical body cells for growth and repair.
• B. Production of gametes.
• C. Reductive division.
• D. DNA replication.

Answer: (A)

Mitosis yields two genetically identical somatic daughter cells for growth and repair. This type of division distributes duplicated chromosomes equally into two new nuclei, preserving the same chromosome number as the original cell. After interphase, DNA has already been replicated, so each daughter cell ends up with a full set of genetic material. Cytokinesis then divides the cytoplasm to form two separate cells.

The other descriptions point to processes outside of mitosis: producing gametes and the reductive division happen during meiosis, not mitosis, and DNA replication occurs during the pre-mitosis interphase, not as the outcome of mitosis itself.